The fighter is, if my monitor isn't tricking me or the pictures aren't bad, a light grey... There's no white on the toy. There's no white TIE Fighter in Star Wars either. If you've seen the prop(s) in person actually, you see the color is a light grey, and so were the X & Y-Wing fighters too.

The pilot I about expected considering it's what we got last time... I prefer the OTC TIE Pilot because the sculpt is lightyears ahead of the POTF2 Pilot... The arms are indeed wonky on the OTC TIE Pilot. I'd love that figure re-released with the upcoming Death Star Gunner's arms... To me, that's not perfect but damn close.

It's amazing how much better that OTC sculpt is. I was moving the troops around the other day, and it just stood out and made the others look like junk.

I was convinced we wouldn't see this ship again for a long time, so I grabbed two to flank Darth's TIE. I don't think the new color will be that big of an improvement, I hate to think about dropping another 80 bucks just to upgrade the paint.

Honestly the paint's a downgrade to me... the blue-hue hulls are more prevalant in Star Wars since they're the TIE's we see in ESB and ROTJ... The greys are nice since they're film accurate too but I prefer the blue myself.

I'm now going to get two grey to flank Vader's TIE, no doubt, but only because that scene will require that. I just hope we get a Vader's TIE with the grey deco because, well, that's what he should have.

I've found that they can look right if you hang them right, or if sitting (how mine are at the moment, unfortunately), but they do sag due to the structural compromises of the ejecting panel mechanism. They definitely give up sturdy support for the blast-off solar panels.

With help, I scored one of these. On the otheR Site, people are reporting finding them with OTC pilots, but no one has produced a picture yet. Mine had the POTF2 version. Not the POTJ version with the articulates knees mind you, the good old '96 release.

I broke down and just superglued the wings on mine shut which made them look perfect (for the toys they are) Mind you this was on the smaller ties and interceptors. I had all of my ships hanging from the ceiling so I could care less about the "exploding" wings. Never tried to glue the big tie's wings though I must say that the sagginess really detracts from an otherwise great looking ship.

Oh, and on topic I don't think I'll be picking this up as I already have the $30 Target version and could care less for the new color which would cost me $15 more.

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The POTF2 pilot got articulated knees made (for no real reason) as a pack-in figure as well... Not that I've seen the figure, I'm just saying that both have articulated knees... and the OTC's aren't as clearly articulated as the POTF2 resculpted ones are.